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Kai's Photo Soap Produced by MetaTools Inc. $50, PowerMacintosh and Windows 95 Phone 800-472-9025 You need a powerful multimedia computer to run this powerhouse of a graphics package, but if you've got the megahertz, you'll marvel at MetaTools' latest picture tweaker. Photo Soap follows Kai's Power Goo, a hugely successful program that lets users distort and morph photographs in bizarre ways. The new product has the same ease of use, but makes your pictures better rather than sillier.

PhotoDraw 2000 By Microsoft Corp. $150 Windows 95/98/NT www.microsoft.com/ office/photodraw This superb and brand-new software nicely fills a niche about halfway between the rudimentary paint box program built into the Windows operating system and such industrial strength graphics programs as Adobe's Photoshop. Even Photoshop gurus will love the speed and powers Microsoft melds into this package, which is designed to put professional-looking graphics well within reach of users of Microsoft Office standbys like Word and, above all, the Power Point slide show program.

Boynton Beach The Boynton Beach Camera Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Monday of the month at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Highway. The club provides lectures and competition evaluations for digital and traditional photography. The third Monday consists of a hands-on class in Adobe Photoshop or a demonstration of photo techniques. The Boynton Beach Camera Club is a member of the Photographic Society of America. Annual dues are $26 per person and $40 for a household.

Q. Thank you for all the great tips. I missed the one where you described in detail how to download photo-enhancing software. Would you please fill me in? A. Heaven knows that I've written a lot of stuff about ways to find software that lets computer users crop, enhance, adjust and otherwise tweak digital photographs, but I continue to get asked about this.

During a scene in Disney's Toy Story 2, the old man repairing Woody, the cowboy doll, gives an impatient toy collector this advice: "You can't rush art." Or can you? Today, many people proficient in computers and technology are quick to create art. Instead of long hours at a canvas, people design on their computers, creating exquisite works of art that look as if they were created by a master. Technology is taking over, not only in drawing and painting, but also in photography and graphic animation.

A sound toy If you can tolerate the idea of your young children singing Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo over and over in a questionable key at the top of their lungs, you might want to buy them a Disney Karaoke Microphone. The microphone, intended for children ages 6 to 12, comes in two designs, the Classic and the Princess. Each model comes with 25 songs installed. The microphone can be plugged into a television, VCR or DVD player; lyrics appear on the screen and change color as each word is sung.

The Boynton Beach Camera Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month at the Boynton Beach Senior Center, 1021 S. Federal Highway. The club conducts lectures and competition evaluations for digital and traditional photography. The third Monday consists of a hands-on class in Adobe Photoshop or a demonstration of photo techniques. Annual dues are $26 per person and $40 for a household. Preregistration is not required. For more information, call Dr. Sam Klein, 561-735-4888 or Bill Friedman, 561-732-1949.

Boynton Beach Friends of the Boynton Beach City Library will present a free lecture from noon-1 p.m. Monday in the library's program room, 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. This week's lecture will be on "Women Artists Since Medieval Times," by Anita Kirchen, Department of Art and Women's Studies, Florida Atlantic University. This Brown Bag Series runs every Monday through March. Call 561-742-6380. School Board chairman set to speak at meeting The Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Palm Chase Lakes Community Clubhouse, on the south side of Boynton Beach Boulevard between Military Trail and Jog Road.

Ever come across something cool on your computer screen that you want to take a picture of to save and share? If it's just a single image on a Web site, you can usually right click on the image to save it. But if you want to capture more than just one image, take a screenshot. 1 If you use a Mac, skip to step 4. On a Windows PC, press the Print Screen key on your keyboard to take a picture of everything on your computer (including the Start button, toolbar, etc). If you only want to take a picture of the window you are viewing (Web browser, spreadsheet etc)